Saxtus

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We really didn’t want the Mission Architect to be an environment that encourages farming for XP, Rewards or Badges, and we thought long and hard about the current Architect badge situation. Ultimately we’d like it to be a place where you go to play great player created content.

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That generates some questions though, mostly about they ways you devs use rather than the badges.
I will try answering them myself, but correct me if I am wrong...
<ul type="square">[*]Why you gave so many badges to MA then? Probably to promote it enough so can reach even the badgers that didn't care about PLing. And now that served their purpose and you managed to have the numbers to make the press release about the success of MA, you remove them altogether. But numbers don't always show what is really happening. Is this really a success? Yes, we know: We are stupid, we don't understand, our opinion doesn't count, it's ok, you're the Gods in this game, you have the EULA to protect you, life goes on...[*]Why you gonna "fix" only MA badges? Can't you see that there are farmable badges outside MA? I see... You only care about MA's publicity at the moment, because there is an Architect Edition box to sell, so all those other badges that have unrealistic limits and it's impossible to get them if you don't grind foes or recipes, are ok as they aren't the main attraction right now... But the method for creating MA badges and those outside MA was the same... Yes, we know: We are stupid, we don't understand, our opinion doesn't count, it's ok, you're the Gods in this game, you have the EULA to protect you, life goes on...[*]How you can judge what is "great player created content" while you still let people earn tickets for each good rating, thus leading to ticket farming through ratings? You're doing that so all those farming missions will disappear into oblivion. That doesn't mean that what will be left is "good" though! Ratings system will continue to be as awful as it is now, so you can't ensure that we will manage to have "great player created content" in our top of our lists using the in-game's search system. All those changes don't change anything for players that was using other ways to be informed about "good content". Yes, we know: We are stupid, we don't understand, our opinion doesn't count, it's ok, you're the Gods in this game, you have the EULA to protect you, life goes on...[/list]For once more, I feel manipulated.
When all this ends, at least have the courage to say that *you* killed the player base and not the competition.

My 0.02 inf.

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Yes, I'm back.

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You left???



[/ QUOTE ]This! ^^^

@all those sending out thanks and feeling that it's not enough to show your appreciation:
There is a small yellow button in the middle of this page. Try clicking it.
I've did it twice since 2007 and felt happy

Thank you Mids for creating the best tool for this game and then had the courage of passing it to someone else.
I hope that we will bump again in-game (or any other game)!
And please don't let them change it's name.

I see...

Well, is something that we, the community, can do to make you avoid using the broken functions ever again?
I don't think anyone in here would like to see the forum falling apart again...

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I have an idea: Delete all one-line posts with quote-pyramids from an individual in here! That will make board lighter, maybe reduce those integers that overfloating and we won't lose any significant information that can't squeeze in the signature anyway!
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Maintenance wasn't happening half week ago, when French people lost access to their area...

Avatea, can you please confirm if the mass loss of threads we had one day before the Going Rogue announcement, was on purpose (moderation action to clean MA moaning discussions) or a random forum "blip" like this?

Thank you.

If they keep continue deleting entire threads without saying a word, doesn't matter if we get new board or not. We lose the incentive to post anyway.

Since the yesterday's clean up, I will boycott the web board, old or new except if I see a behavior change on behalf of the mods.
Let them live in their nirvana...

Oh stop that!
Enjoy your privilege to be in the "closed" beta!
You may want to give trial keys to those you care so they can also be in "closed" beta too!
I've never been in a closed beta before! I am so eager!
Thank you Posi!

Guilty.

The only thing they need to look at datamining is the earnings and put a cutter for them as I told at Avatea's thread.

They prefer not so I guess that either they afraid that code will break, either they want to play hide and seek with players...

As an example, if a system like this was in place, CoP would never needed to be removed...

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I'm quite pleased to note that Posi said that people "may lose benefits they have gained - leading up to and perhaps including losing access to the characters power-leveled in this fashion."

[/ QUOTE ]Mmmm... Imagine the bad publicity that will be generated if suddenly new players that had no idea what farming is and just chose Atlas as their entrance point, to begin writing in all over the Internet that their characters got blocked...
Woohoo!

As they stupidly tied the voting system (that is already a wrong one for that case as it uses the obsolete 5-star system instead of something else) to ticket rewards, is hard for anyone to find quality content alone or with company except if tagged by NCsoft employees.

I think there are a few global channels that you can join for that but as I have no personal experience I can't suggest you a specific one (or remember their names).

We failed once again but we had great time!

Next MoSTF attempts from me won't posted in the EU web boards to avoid clashing with the current ones.
Sincere apologies to Sgt. for hijacking his thread.

Tonight, Sunday 3-Mar-2009, at 7pm UK time, we will do another MoSTF attempt.
If you want to participate, please post here your global and your level 50 hero powersets.

Thank you.

Let him join to what is better for him and not for you.

Your New Dawn gone offline due to AFK a little after 7pm. I didn't knew what to do due to no answer to my tells and stood up the team till 8pm. The team had a blaster, 4 controllers, a warshade and me as tanker. We added one more controller (an empath for me) at 8pm.

I failed the team (once again): I thought that the tree is tauntable but it turns out that you can only target it and not interfere with it while vines are still up, so my plan had a big hole in it and we lost one of the trollers because of it.

The best way to not lose someone at the tree probably is to send squishies to clean the back and sides of it and let the others to clean the front of it as it shoots randomly to those in it's sight, even if the tanker is in front of it and do some AoEs...

I also died few times at last mission so we didn't have even a chance.
It took us 3:33:14 and we had 115 defeats total as we were unable to separate inner circle at first and then I had not enough buffage at Recluse...

It was better that you weren't there, truly you didn't missed anything remarkable.
Thankfully I didn't listen to the team that begged me to abort at last mission and at least we finished the darn thing.

P.S. I see the bright side: At least two teammates, never done STF before. They saw it and they liked it!

That's reassuring...
At least I know what taunting is and there is a slight chance to know how to use it too!

Mmmm... I forgot about those silly tickets...
Yet prices seems awfully high anyway since MA introduced.

You can't avoid the market as MA has no drops from farming missions.
That's why the market has so high prices, because only the few last of us who don't farm, we are the only source of drops...

You have more faith in this forum than in game, I think you spend more time in here than with your scrapper.

Edit: Hmm... here is an interesting tip that popped up while mission was loading:
"You can level from 1-50 in Mission Architect"

No kidding!

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Loc: Leaving
18/08-09 &lt;- Account ends!

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Hmmm, let me guess...
You made the same mistake as me: Payed for 6+1 free month and also got mac version?

Back then was the time that still believed their promises that something good is coming...
Then MA farmageddon happened...

That will filter out participants for sure...
I'll be there and hope for some to turn up.

Worst case scenario: We fail.

So:
Issue 16: Solo or farm? Your choice!

Happy b-day!